“His feet hit the mat, and almost instantly his knees buckled down, and he just let out the worst scream that you could ever have heard from a child.” Those were the words of Kati Hill, a mother whose three-year-old son sustained a broken femur at a trampoline park. Her story is one that we at Attorney911 have heard variations of for over twenty-five years. Whether it happens at a birthday party at an Urban Air in South Austin or during a weekend outing at an Altitude near the I-35 corridor serving City of Creedmoor, the reality of a trampoline injury is devastating, permanent, and life-changing.
If your child was injured at a trampoline park in City of Creedmoor, you are likely standing in a hospital room at Dell Children’s Medical Center or a similar Central Texas trauma bay, wondering how a Saturday afternoon turned into a nightmare. You might be looking at a clipboard the park manager handed you, or re-reading the digital waiver you signed at the kiosk twenty minutes before the ambulance was called.
We are The Manginello Law Firm, led by managing partner Ralph Manginello. With 25+ years of experience in catastrophic injury litigation, we have spent decades holding Fortune 500 companies and multinational corporations accountable. We have stood against teams of corporate lawyers in BP Texas City refinery litigation, and we are currently litigating a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston involving rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure—the exact same muscle and organ breakdown we see in crushed-limb and extended-exertion trampoline injuries.
At City of Creedmoor, the trampoline park industry is not just a collection of local businesses; it is a multi-billion dollar sector backed by massive private equity firms like Palladium Equity Partners (the owners of Sky Zone, Inc., formerly CircusTrix LLC) and Seidler Equity Partners (the owners of Unleashed Brands, the parent company of Urban Air). These companies count on you believing that the waiver you signed is an absolute shield. They are wrong.
In Harris County, a Texas jury awarded $11.485 million against the operator of Cosmic Jump after a sixteen-year-old fell through a torn trampoline slide onto unpadded concrete. The jury found gross negligence—a total disregard for safety—even though a waiver had been signed. This is the largest reported jury verdict against a U.S. trampoline park, and it happened right here in Texas. It is the gold standard for how we build these cases.
If your family’s primary language is Spanish, our associate attorney Lupe Peña speaks with you directly—sin intérpretes. He spent years on the other side of the table, defending recreational businesses and insurance companies against these exact types of claims. Now, he uses that playbook against them. He knows which Travis County waivers are airtight and which ones are full of holes based on the Delfingen US-Texas v. Valenzuela doctrine, which can void waivers signed by those who cannot read the language they were presented in.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. We are available 24/7 to help families in City of Creedmoor and across the country. We work on a contingency fee basis: you pay nothing unless we win, and we advance every expense, from the biomechanical engineers to the life-care planners your child’s recovery requires.
One Bounce to Catastrophe: The Physics of Trampoline Park Injuries
A trampoline park is not just a room full of backyard trampolines. It is a high-energy, high-throughput environment designed to maximize the number of jumpers on the floor. When you bring your child to a City of Creedmoor-area park, you are putting them into a system that stores and releases massive amounts of elastic potential energy.
The signature mechanism of injury at these parks is the “double-bounce.” This occurs when two jumpers of different weights are on the same trampoline mat. If a 200-pound adult lands just as a 60-pound child is pushing off, the energy transfer multiplies the child’s launch force by up to four times. Peer-reviewed research, including studies by Eager in Sports Engineering and Nysted in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, confirms that in these mass-ratio launch scenarios, the smaller child is roughly 14 times more likely to be injured.
The result is often a “trampoline fracture”—a proximal tibial metaphyseal buckle fracture typically seen in children under six. At City of Creedmoor, we see these injuries most often when “Toddler Time” rules are ignored, and older, larger children are allowed to jump in zones reserved for small kids.
Another catastrophic mechanism involves foam pits. Many parents assume the foam is a cloud-like safety measure. It isn’t. Foam blocks compact over time, and if a park fails to rotate them according to ASTM F2970 standards, a jumper can “bottom out,” hitting the hard concrete floor beneath the foam. This axial loading on the cervical spine is how we see quadriplegia and permanent paralysis, much like the $15.6 million Damion Collins case against Urban Air in Overland Park, where an arbitrator found a “systemic failure” to implement safety changes.
Learn more about the immediate steps you must take in our video guide: “I’ve Had an Accident — What Should I Do First?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCox4Lq7zBM.
The Evidence Clock: Why City of Creedmoor Families Must Act Today
The most important thing you need to know about the trampoline park serving City of Creedmoor is that their evidence is on a timer. The digital video records (DVR) at most modern parks start overwriting old footage in as little as 7 to 30 days. The incident report you filled out at the front desk is stored on a park computer system where “revisions” can be made, sanitizing the employee’s initial admissions of fault.
Our firm is built for speed. Within 24 hours of being retained by a family in City of Creedmoor, our spoliation letter is on the desk of the park’s general counsel. We demand the preservation of:
- Multi-angle surveillance video: 24 hours before and after the incident.
- Version history of the kiosk waiver: Including the specific session metadata from when you signed.
- Original and revised incident reports: Complete with the file metadata that shows who edited the document and when.
- Attendant training logs: To see if the person watching the court on Saturday was a 17-year-old hired on Thursday with zero certification.
- Daily inspection logs: ASTM F2970 requires parks to document and sign off on padding integrity and foam-pit depth every single morning.
Every minute the park delays a 911 call or an apology is a minute they are using to let their surveillance systems overwrite the truth. We send private investigators to these parks in the City of Creedmoor area to document current conditions before the springs are replaced or the foam blocks are refilled.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. We advancing every investigative cost so you don’t have to.
Abandoning the Safety Floor: ASTM F2970 and National Gaps
Most personal injury firms can’t tell you what ASTM F2970 requires of a trampoline park. We can cite it from memory. This standard sets the minimum “safety floor” for everything from attendant-to-jumper ratios to the required depth of a foam pit.
ASTM F2970-22 is currently voluntary in 39 states. Europe has a mandatory standard in EN ISO 23659:2022, and Australia mandates AS 4989:2015. The United States is effectively the only developed economy without a binding national safety standard for these parks. When a park in the City of Creedmoor area claims they are “compliant with all regulations,” they usually mean they are following a voluntary guideline written by their own industry.
We look for the specific violations that turn an “accident” into a gross-negligence case:
- Attendant-to-jumper ratios: Did the park drop below the required staffing during a Travis County birthday-party rush?
- Age and weight separation: Did they let a 200-pound adult on the same bed as an 80-pound child?
- Foam pit depth: Was the pit compacted to four inches when ASTM requires eight or more?
- Harness securement: At attractions like the climbing wall or Sky Rider, were the safety lines actually attached?
In North Carolina, 12-year-old Matthew Lu died at an Altitude Trampoline Park because staff failed to secure his harness on a climbing wall over concrete. The park publicly admitted “human error” and removed the attraction entirely. We use these patterns to show that your child’s injury in City of Creedmoor wasn’t an isolated event—it was the output of an unsafe system.
Dismantling the Waiver: Why You Still Have a Case in Texas
The single biggest myth the insurance companies want City of Creedmoor parents to believe is that the iPad waiver they clicked at the kiosk means they can’t sue. In Texas, that piece of paper is not an automatic shield.
Under the Dresser Industries fair-notice doctrine, a waiver of negligence must be “conspicuous.” If the release language was buried in the 17th paragraph of a tiny-font terminal screen, it may be legally void for lack of fair notice. More importantly, under the Texas precedent of Munoz v. II Jaz Inc., parents generally cannot bind their minor children to pre-injury waivers. The child’s personal cause of action for their injuries survives the parent’s signature.
Furthermore, no waiver in Texas can release a company from gross negligence. If the park knew a trampoline bed was torn—like in the Cosmic Jump Houston case—and they let your child jump on it anyway, a signed waiver is meaningless.
Our team includes experts in waiver defeat. Lupe Peña knows the exact arguments the insurance firms will use because he used to raise those defenses himself. We know which waiver clauses are full of holes, and we know how to make Travis County courts see them.
Learn more in our video: “What to Do if Your Insurance Claim Is Denied” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsdXq0WOH8M.
Catastrophic Pediatric Injuries: Beyond the Initial Pain
A trampoline injury at age eight is never just an ER bill. It is a potential decade of orthopedic monitoring. At Attorney911, we specialize in identifying the catastrophic pediatric injuries that generalist firms often minimize.
Salter-Harris Growth Plate Fractures
The growth plate (physis) is the softest part of a child’s skeleton. A fracture in these areas can result in premature closure of the plate, leading to limb-length discrepancies or angular deformities that don’t manifest until your child hits a growth spurt years later. We retain pediatric orthopedic surgeons to testify about what happens when a growth plate is destroyed at age nine and how many future surgeries your child will need to walk straight at age eighteen.
SCIWORA and Cervical Trauma
Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality (SCIWORA) is a pediatric phenomenon where a child sustains a permanent cord injury without a visible bone fracture. This often happens in head-first foam-pit landings. We’ve seen children initially misdiagnosed with “panic attacks” in the ER—much like the viral Elle Yona case—only to realize hours later they are suffering a spinal-card stroke from a vertebral artery dissection.
Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
If your child jumps for two hours in a hot City of Creedmoor facility, drinks one Coke, and arrives at the ER two days later with “cola-colored” urine and acute kidney failure, they are suffering from rhabdomyolysis. We are uniquely positioned to handle these cases because of our active UH litigation. We know the experts, the labs, and the physiology needed to prove the park’s failure to provide hydration and rest breaks was the cause.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Hablamos Español. Our consultations focus on the medicine, the recovery, and the accountability your family is owed.
The Liable Parties: Who Really Pays for a City of Creedmoor Injury?
When we sue for a trampoline injury, we don’t just sue the local LLC. That company is often undercapitalized and carries a policy limit that won’t cover a catastrophic spine injury. We map the “money trail” upstream to the deepest pockets.
- The Operator LLC: The local franchisee in the Austin metro area.
- The Franchisor: Entities like Sky Zone Franchising LLC or Urban Air Franchise Holdings, who dictate the safety manuals the local park ignored.
- The Parent Conglomerate: Sky Zone, Inc. or Unleashed Brands, who approve the cost-cutting budgets that reduce staff-to-jumper ratios.
- The Private Equity Backer: Firms like Palladium or Seidler who are the ultimate decision-makers in the corporate tower.
- Component Manufacturers: If a spring failed or a net anchor tore, we sue Jumpking, Skywalker, or the commercial court vendor.
- Property Landlords: If a fall occurred onto unpadded concrete near a lobby or entrance, the shopping center owner may share premises liability.
We’ve gone toe-to-toe with Walmart, Amazon, FedEx, and BP. The parent conglomerates behind national trampoline parks don’t share a secret pass—we know how to pierce their corporate shells and access the multi-million-dollar umbrella policies your recovery requires.
Backyard Trampolines: The Dangerous Product in the Creedmoor Grass
While parks capture the headlines, the American Academy of Pediatrics has advised against home trampoline use since 1999. Manufacturers like Jumpking, Skywalker, Springfree, and JumpSport sell roughly one million units a year, knowing that their product will send 100,000 children to the ER annually.
In the Sun Belt climate of City of Creedmoor, backyard trampolines are particularly susceptible to UV degradation. Polypropylene netting loses its tensile strength after a few seasons in the Texas sun. Springs rust-pit in the humidity. Most homeowners fail to replace these components, and manufacturers don’t do enough to warn about the usable life of the equipment.
We also handle “attractive nuisance” cases in Travis County. If a neighbor child wanders into your yard and is hurt because you left the ladder on an unsecured trampoline, Texas law holds the homeowner accountable. We navigate the complexities of homeowners’ insurance exclusions—many policies in Travis County specifically deny trampoline claims—and we find the umbrella layers or manufacturer defect theories that protect the injured child.
Understanding Your Settlement: What Your Case Is Actually Worth
If your child sustains a catastrophic cervical injury, the first year of care alone can exceed $1 million. The lifetime cost for a C1-C4 quadriplegic patient can range from $15 million to $40 million. A “broken leg” settlement for a Salter-Harris fracture with growth disturbance frequently anchors in the $500,000 to $2 million range.
We build your damages using a 10-step litigation process:
- 24-Hour Spoliation: certified notice to freeze all digital and physical evidence.
- Forensic DVR Extraction: Imaging the park’s hard drive before footage is “glitched.”
- Medical Chronology: A specialist review of every trauma bay record and operative report.
- Corporate Discovery: Piercing the layers from the operator to the private equity sponsor.
- ASTM Audit: Measuring the park’s reality against the 1:32 attendant-ratio standard.
- Waiver Analysis: Attacking conspicuousness and parental authority vectors.
- Expert Retention: Deploying biomechanical engineers to model the energy transfer of the double-bounce.
- Deposition Strategy: Making the operations manager explain why margin was prioritized over staffing.
- Life-Care Planning: Itemizing every surgery, therapy session, and wheelchair replacement your child will need for the next 70 years.
- Trial Readiness: Preparing to tell your story to a Travis County jury from day one.
Learn more in our video: “What Is Fair Compensation for Pain and Suffering?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG07vbB4cdU.
Why City of Creedmoor Families Choose Attorney911
We represent families. We represent children. We represent the parent at the hospital bed watching a surgeon explain what irreversible muscle necrosis looks like.
Our firm is the only one in the country that has memorized ASTM F2970, has an active $10M rhabdomyolysis case bridge, and has an attorney who used to sit on the other side of the table writing the very indemnity clauses Sky Zone and Urban Air rely on today.
As client Chad Harris said, “You are NOT just some client… You are FAMILY to them.” When you call us, you aren’t talking to a lead-matching service or a directory. You are talking to a firm that has recovered multi-million dollar settlements for traumatic brain injury and spinal cord victims.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. The park’s insurance adjuster will try to reach you with a “friendly check-in” call and a $5,000 Med-Pay check that signs away your rights. Don’t take it. Take our free consultation instead.
Frequently Asked Questions for City of Creedmoor Parents
What should I do if my child got hurt at a Sky Zone in City of Creedmoor?
Get medical care immediately at a full pediatric ER like Dell Children’s. Do not move the child if a neck injury is possible. Request that the park call 911 immediately. Once stable, photograph the scene, get witness names, and call us to send a spoliation letter before the DVR overwrites the footage in 7-30 days.
Can I sue Urban Air if I signed a waiver?
Yes. In Texas, parents generally cannot waive their minor children’s personal injury rights under Munoz v. II Jaz. Furthermore, waivers do not cover gross negligence or reckless disregard of ASTM safety standards. If the park was understaffed or the equipment was knowingly defective, the waiver does not stop your case.
How much money can my family get for a trampoline injury settlement?
Amounts vary based on the severity of the injury and the strength of the liability evidence. Catastrophic spinal injuries frequently settle in the multi-million dollar range, and fracture cases with long-term growth plate implications often anchor between $500k and $2M.
Is the foam pit at the trampoline park really safe?
Foam pits are among the most dangerous features in any park. They are prone to compaction, leading to “bottoming out” injuries on the concrete floor below. The industry is actively moving toward airbags because foam pits are difficult to sanitize (harboring MRSA and other bacteria) and fail to provide uniform deceleration for neck-first landings.
What happens if the trampoline park’s surveillance video is missing?
If a park destroys video after receiving a spoliation letter, we move for sanctions and an “adverse inference” instruction. This tells the jury they should assume the missing video showed the park was negligent. In the Mathew Knight Georgia case, a $3.5M verdict was fueled by four camera angles “glitching” exactly when the injury happened.
How long do I have to sue a trampoline park in Texas?
Standard personal injury statute of limitations is two years. However, for injuries to minors, the clock is tolled until the child’s 18th birthday, meaning they have until age 20. BUT—the evidence disappears in weeks. Waiting years to file is often fatal to a case because the witnesses and video will be long gone.
Can I sue if the waiver was in English and we don’t read English well?
Yes. The Delfingen doctrine in Texas allows for formation challenges when a contract is signed under pressure and the signer cannot understand the language. Our attorney Lupe Peña focuses on these bilingual-formation attacks to protect Hispanic families in City of Creedmoor.
Is my child’s headache after a trampoline accident normal?
A headache can be a sign of a concussion or a more serious Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). If your child also has neck pain, it could be a sign of vertebral artery dissection. Never assume a headache is “normal” after a high-impact fall. Seek a pediatric neurology evaluation immediately.
Should I let the trampoline park’s insurance company pay my hospital bill?
Be very careful. Parks often offer “Med-Pay” in the early days. This is often a Trojan Horse: the check may contain a full liability release on the back. Depositing it could end your multi-million dollar claim in exchange for a few thousand dollars. Never sign anything before calling a lawyer.
What’s the difference between the trampoline park LLC and the franchisor?
The LLC is the local business; the franchisor (like Sky Zone Franchising LLC) is the national corporate entity. In the $15.6M Damion Collins award, the franchisor absorbed 40% of the liability. We pursue both to ensure we reach the deeper insurance layers that catastrophic medical care requires.
The Final Call
What happened to your child at City of Creedmoor wasn’t an accident—it was the predictable output of a system. The AAP has been warning since 1999. ASTM F2970 was written by the industry as a floor, and the park chose to operate below it to save money on staff. The surveillance is engineered to overwrite before most parents reach a lawyer.
Attorney911 was built for this exact fight. Our spoliation letter is already drafted; it goes out within 24 hours of your retention. Weadvance every expense—the biomechanical engineers, the pediatric orthopedic specialists, the life-care planners. Your child’s recovery fund stays untouched.
The park has lawyers. The franchisor has lawyers. The private equity sponsor has lawyers. So do we.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. The case starts today.
